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+ + + + + + +The author of the rather amazing Scary Go Round. +I highly recommend procuring the printed collections; the printing +quality is superb (full color on glossy paper), and the long story +arcs are much easier to read.
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-I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on Stoic -philosophy. It is a fairly quick read; I read each of the twelve books -before sleeping over the course of two weeks. Toward the end of the -collection things get a bit topically repetetive (e.g. acting -according to the nature of man is reflected upon over and over), but -each repetition looks at the topic in a slightly different light. A -number of passages I found quite inspiring, and scratched them down in -my notebook to ponder further.
+At the time, I enjoyed reading this collection of meditations on +Stoic philosophy, and it was a fairly quick read (fifteen minutes a +day over the course of two weeks for me). Nowadays I've read +Epictetus, and I suggest reading his Discourses instead.
-Blake is my favorite of the English poets. His @@ -199,7 +753,7 @@ interesting Illuminated works. There is a very high quality with high resolution plate scans and full transcriptions among other things.
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@@ -211,7 +765,7 @@ Beulah. -Rating: (10) / Fiction
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+ +Of the Sandman spinoffs, Lucifer stands out as the best for +the first half, but then the writer appears to take on far too great a +task, and, with the introduction of some disagreeable character +relations, fails to execute the story as well as it could have +been. Still, it was worth reading to the end even though most of the +stories after issue 35 or so were merely ok. If you like Kierkegaard I +suggest issues 2, 3, and 62—they show the form of the incommensurable +relation of the single individual to the absolute perfectly.
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+ +Perhaps the best comic book series of all time; I would say The +Sandman as a whole ranks higher than anything even Alan Moore has +written.
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+ +A friend of a friend decided one evening that I needed to read +so-called normal people books, and so she lent me Good Omens. It +was an enjoyable read and unearthed vague memories of comic book +magazines I read when I was small and the name Sandman; thus through +one book I found something far greater.
+ + + + +Former teacher and now author-activist.
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@@ -238,7 +859,7 @@ system. Available -Kahlil Gibran is fairly interesting; his earlier works do not @@ -251,7 +872,7 @@ paperbacks with a hardcasing, and are of seriously inferior quality to the editions from the 50s and 60s (and cost quite a bit more, naturally).
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@@ -261,7 +882,7 @@ Tear and a Smile excepting the last poem ("A Poet's Voice"). -Rating: (9) / Fiction
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+ + + + + + +Perhaps the most overrated modern writer. Other people have written +everything he has to write better and many years before he got around +to it.
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+ +Huxley stains the name of Blake by naming this horrible +pseudo-scientific and pseudo-poetic essay after a line from The +Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Subjectivity and objectivity are +incommensurable; his attempt and being subjectively objective is +utterly worthless.
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+ +Blah blah LSD blah blah Mushrooms blah blah Peyote blah blah I'm +Aldous Huxley I'm a pretentious jerk. Don't bother.
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+ +A nice light read; the story is obvious and by the hundreth page +the ending is clear, but it provided a bit of a break from heavier +reading for me. I must say that anyone who has read Brave New World +and does not despise modern society has the intellectual capacity of +an Epsilon. 1984 is perhaps easily misread, but Brave New World +is very clear with its message and is a bit like being smacked upside +the head with a hammer.
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@@ -325,13 +1007,13 @@ from the Mandarin disease. Are we doomed to suffer like the rest? -The novelist brother of William James; I've not read many (read: one) of his books, but what I did was decent.
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@@ -365,14 +1047,14 @@ make mapping decisions customizable. -Kierkegaard was a master of style and philosophy; his writing is interesting even if one finds the theistic extentialism espoused disagreeable.
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+ +An interesting dialectical lyric contrasting Despair and Faith.
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+ +He who despairs of esthetic repetition gets none; he who despairs +of ethical repetition receieves the esthetic. Is it true then that no +repetition exists? Is transition all one can hope for?
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+ +After learning Scheme, I read Successful Lisp and was able to +pick up Common Lisp fairly easily.
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@@ -425,7 +1227,7 @@ social customs. -A bit acerbic and esoteric, Nietzsche is for me a good secular @@ -436,7 +1238,18 @@ by being read by far too many angsty teenagers who see (and relay) only Nietzsche the asshole rather than Nietzsche the master of the polemic.
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+ +A masterpiece of indirect communication depsite the occasional +flaw and overly dramatic passage. Certainly a book worth reading many +times over the course of one's life.
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On the Geneaology of Morals is a wonderful book of three -polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethic valuations, and the +polemical essays on the origin of moral/ethical valuations, and the blindness of modern philosphers whose very thinking is tainted by these valuations unknowingly.
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@@ -509,12 +1406,12 @@ difficult to put down, and was read in under a week of spare time. -Rating: (9) / Fiction
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+ +Once upon a time I was fifteen and I read this book. It was more +or less what taught me how to write programs just large enough to do +useful things, and so shall forever be remembered by me. A year and a +half later I stumbled upon a little language called Scheme and fell +down the rabbit hole.
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+ +There are few books that I have started to read before sleeping +and found myself watching the sun rise after finishing. Cat's Cradle +is definitely required nerd reading.
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+ + + - + October 27, 2009